Author: Leon Wimmenhoeve
Changelog
Looking for the changelog of Really Simple Security & Really Simple Security Pro? Below instructions will work for other plugins as well: How to access the changelog Go to your WordPress plugins overview. Find Really Simple Security and click on “View Details” Click on the “Changelog” tab. The most common practice is that major releases either include a rework of an existing feature, or an entirely new feature. A minor release is usually geared towards improving compatibility, or improving upon
How to install an SSL certificate on Apache
If you have generated your Let’s Encrypt certificate with Really Simple Security, but you don’t have any of the automated installation options (shell, cPanel with API, Plesk with API or Cloudways), you’ll have to install the SSL certificate manually on your Apache server. Download your certificate files At the end of the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate generation in the Really Simple Security wizard, you see several buttons allowing you to download the required files: a certificate.crt and a private.pem file.
WordPress website keeps logging me out in back-end after I switched to SSL
In certain cases, you might come across the issue that after you’ve switched the website to SSL: it immediately logs you out, every time the page is reloaded. Most of the times, the cause of this issue is that somewhere in the code the domain is still being forced to the http:// domain. In the most recent case that we came across, the user had the following code in their theme’s functions.php file: update_option( ‘siteurl’, ‘http://domain.com’ ); update_option( ‘home’, ‘http://domain.com’
Getting everything out of your security headers
After you enable Really Simple Security (Pro), there will be quite a number of new features available to you. We recommend to start by navigating to Security -> Settings, and work your way down through the available options to enable all of the desired security settings. This includes all of the recommended Security Headers as well. We sometimes get the question: “Which headers should I enable, and why aren’t they all just enabled by default?”. This is not always possible,
How to install Really Simple Security Pro
Getting started: The installation of Really Simple Security Pro works just like any other plugin, except that you can’t download it from the WordPress.org Repository, you have to upload it yourself. Like when you manually install a WordPress plugin. Do I still need Really Simple Security Free when using the Pro plugin? Since version 8.0 of Really Simple Security, it is no longer necessary to have both the Free and Pro version of Really Simple Security enabled next to each